An American BibleAlice Hubbard The Roycrofters, 1912 - 328 pages A collection of quotations from Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Robert Ingersoll, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elbert Hubbard |
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Page 261
... in turn with the soul . But there are no such men as we fable ; no Jesus , nor Pericles , nor Cæsar , nor Angelo , nor Washington , such as we have made . Each man is a hint of the truth , but 261 RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
... in turn with the soul . But there are no such men as we fable ; no Jesus , nor Pericles , nor Cæsar , nor Angelo , nor Washington , such as we have made . Each man is a hint of the truth , but 261 RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
Page 399
... temerity cost him his life . When Phidias placed his own portrait with that of Pericles upon a sacred shield , the glory that was Greece got its death sentence o The mumble of discontent grew into a roar . Socrates 399 ELBERT HUBBARD.
... temerity cost him his life . When Phidias placed his own portrait with that of Pericles upon a sacred shield , the glory that was Greece got its death sentence o The mumble of discontent grew into a roar . Socrates 399 ELBERT HUBBARD.
Page 400
... now living as great as those fourteen ain thestime of Pericles , its would be difficult to determines qu velin99 But this we know we have a Spirit of the Hive now that is making honey honestly , and that , 400 AN AMERICAN BIBLE.
... now living as great as those fourteen ain thestime of Pericles , its would be difficult to determines qu velin99 But this we know we have a Spirit of the Hive now that is making honey honestly , and that , 400 AN AMERICAN BIBLE.
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